PLANE DISASTER
CRASH AT BEACH HEAD MACHINE PLUNGES INTO SEA LOSS OF FOUR LIVES (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 8. (Received Aug. 8, at 9 p.m.) Swooping through a fog bank after narrowly missing telegraph wires, a twin-engined Air Force monoplane from Tangmere crashed at Beach Head, ploughed 200 yards through furze, killed an unidentified woman, and missed by inches two holidaymakers who threw themselves flat. The machine then exploded and plunged 500 feet into the sea, whence a police launch recovered the bodies of Sergeants Harry Farrow and Alfred Sargent, and Aircraftsman Leslie Phillips. Wreckage was strewn over a hundred vards on the edge of the cliff.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 9
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111PLANE DISASTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 9
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